
Payment Gateway Licence
To run a business related to payments one needs to have a licence, which makes the business legal to operate. In today's digital world where many people operate digitally, payments have also been made digitally. Since, the beginning of this decade, these digital payments system-related businesses have been booming. With the drastic increase in these businesses, the need to acquire payment gateway licences has also increased significantly.
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What is a payment gateway licence ?
Payment Gateway licences are legal authorisations that are granted, by regulatory bodies like the Reserve Bank of India. The statute governing regarding the issuance and rules of the lisence is Payment and Settlement Act. The regulations are tightened by RBI to ensure that there is financial stability, ensuring consumer protection, as well trust of the common public in doing transactions digitally. The payment permission under this licence can be done from debit, credit card as well as in the form on Internet Banking. There are multiple benefits and steps involved in acquiring various types of payment gateway licences which we will be discussing in detail.
What is a payment gateway licence?
Benefits
Legal Compliance : Companies providing Payment Gateway services having the lisence and permission for it, which is regulated by a regulatory body makes sure that there is proper authorisation and there is compliance with all the necessary laws and lisecnces for payment gateway business to operate upon.
Credibility and Trust : Having compliances and the lisences that are regulated and authorised by the government increases the trust and credibility of the general public on the company.Because to facilitate banking process one needs to submit their bank details and these would be operating on their hard-earned money. In India during the end of the previous decade the main challenge these payment gateways faced is to get the trust of the Indian customers in the Indian market.
Access to Payment Systems : Having lisence not only facilitates payment merely between two individuals, it is much more it connects the service with banks, with services that facilitate investments. Having lisence gives acesss to all the finance related service as well as investing finance services.
Market Expansion : Increasing in access to payment also increases the scope of expansion in the market for the service provider allowing to reach to a wider customer base and more people in the process The customer base not only limits to just merely two people merely making payments, but it extends to banking business and also it reaches to people looking for guidance related to investment of their finances.
Revenue Generation : Expanding the market leads to more leads to more revenue being generated from the business. Earlier in order to make some money, these platforms used to merely have their customer base to two people who are trying to just send money to each other. But with the expansion in market and increase in the customer base, the scope of revenue generation by acquiring lisence and proper authorisation increases way more.
Procedure
Following are the steps and documents required to obtain lisence
Step 1: As stated in the Payment and Settlement Act
As stated in the Payment and Settlement Act, one needs to submit an application in the form A, to the Resrve Bank of India office to department handling the payment and settlements.
Step 2: Following making of the application
Following making of the application, the application is verified by the RBI department. If they feel needs or changes they might make the changes as per their requirements for the applications to be accepted.
In order for the application to be accepted following are the conditions that must be met:
1. There must be a proper product prototype of the the payment system in the application.
2. The security systems in the payment system must be functioning at the time of the application, in order to give assurance of the secure system.
3. Demonstration of the entire procedure of the fund transfer from one bank account to another.
4. The terms and conditions that the customers would be made to agree upon
Step 3: If the prodcut is approved
If the prodcut is approved then the RBI may give the lisecne for operating the payment system, upon complete satisfaction of the product then the business may operate with the lisence.
Documents Required
1 . Business Incoproation papers from the Registrar of Companies
2 . Onwers identity proof- Adhar Card or Pan card
3 . Director Identification Number(DIN) and Digital Signature Certificate(DSC)
4 . Bank account of the business
5 . Proof of registered property for the business
6 . Proof of test related to the working of the transfer model, coding test certificate from a software company.
7 . Basic business plan of the company
Capital Requirements for licence
1. Only Banks and Non-banking companies must adhere to the minimum capital requirement necessities to be met.
2. Companies that have approved lisences from foreign countries for dealing with these transaction rellated business under the FEMA, need not adhere to these requirements.
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